Jennifer Scheper Hughes is associate professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Riverside, and author of Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present.
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Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the America... SEE MORE